Linux Engineer Jobs in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 559 769
Rank change year-on-year +37 +210 -339
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 323 431 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.50% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 269 327 310
10th Percentile £41,450 £41,250 £38,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 110 £80,000 +14.29% 18
South West +3 60 £51,250 -9.29% 13
South East +35 54 £57,500 +13.86% 11
East of England +7 39 £63,750 +10.87% 10
Midlands +11 33 £57,500 -17.86% 7
North of England +8 31 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Yorkshire +51 17 £45,000 +5.88% 3
West Midlands +19 17 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -5 16 £52,500 -16.00% 7
North East - 10 £60,000 -
North West +6 4 £55,000 +3.77% 2
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 323 (100.00%) Linux
2 113 (34.98%) Python
3 111 (34.37%) Ansible
4 107 (33.13%) Bash
5 90 (27.86%) Red Hat
6 72 (22.29%) Software Engineering
7 70 (21.67%) AWS
8 67 (20.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (20.74%) C
9 66 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 57 (17.65%) DevOps
11 57 (17.65%) Ubuntu
12 56 (17.34%) Social Skills
13 54 (16.72%) Windows
14 51 (15.79%) CentOS
15 48 (14.86%) Docker
16 46 (14.24%) Firewall
17 45 (13.93%) TCP/IP
17 45 (13.93%) Kubernetes
18 44 (13.62%) Azure
19 43 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
19 43 (13.31%) Agile
20 42 (13.00%) Finance
20 42 (13.00%) Puppet
20 42 (13.00%) Terraform
21 41 (12.69%) Security Cleared
21 41 (12.69%) CI/CD
22 40 (12.38%) Git
23 35 (10.84%) Embedded Linux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.02%) Apache
1 13 (4.02%) nginx
2 8 (2.48%) Confluence
3 7 (2.17%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.62%) JBoss
5 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.31%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.31%) Simulink
2 1 (0.31%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.67%) AWS
2 44 (13.62%) Azure
3 16 (4.95%) Amazon S3
4 14 (4.33%) GCP
5 12 (3.72%) GitHub
5 12 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.41%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.10%) SaaS
8 6 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.24%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.62%) Kong
11 2 (0.62%) Serverless
11 2 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.24%) Firewall
2 45 (13.93%) TCP/IP
3 31 (9.60%) DNS
4 22 (6.81%) LAN
5 20 (6.19%) Internet
6 17 (5.26%) WAN
7 12 (3.72%) SAN
8 11 (3.41%) SNMP
9 9 (2.79%) tcpdump
9 9 (2.79%) VPN
10 8 (2.48%) DHCP
11 7 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.93%) BGP
13 3 (0.93%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.93%) HTTP
13 3 (0.93%) IPv6
13 3 (0.93%) Wireless
14 2 (0.62%) NAS
14 2 (0.62%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.60%) MySQL
2 14 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.17%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.55%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.93%) Big Data
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.62%) Redis
9 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (12.38%) Git
2 34 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.81%) JIRA
4 11 (3.41%) GitLab
5 8 (2.48%) ClearCase
5 8 (2.48%) ClearQuest
5 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.86%) GDB
8 5 (1.55%) DTrace
8 5 (1.55%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.93%) Redmine
9 3 (0.93%) Subversion
10 2 (0.62%) git-flow
10 2 (0.62%) Maven
10 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (13.00%) Finance
4 17 (5.26%) Banking
5 12 (3.72%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.10%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.55%) Advertising
10 4 (1.24%) Military
10 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Electronics
11 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.93%) Games
11 3 (0.93%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.93%) Marketing
12 2 (0.62%) Automotive
12 2 (0.62%) Law
12 2 (0.62%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.57%) Yocto
2 12 (3.72%) LDAP
2 12 (3.72%) Middleware
3 11 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.41%) YAML
4 8 (2.48%) JSON
5 7 (2.17%) GTK
5 7 (2.17%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.17%) KML
5 7 (2.17%) Regular Expression
5 7 (2.17%) XML
6 6 (1.86%) LAMP
7 4 (1.24%) .NET
7 4 (1.24%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.24%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.93%) ADO
8 3 (0.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.93%) Kafka
8 3 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.43%) IoT
2 22 (6.81%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.88%) PKI
4 18 (5.57%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (4.33%) Clustering
5 14 (4.33%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.41%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.17%) Device Driver
7 7 (2.17%) Replication
8 5 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.55%) FPGA
8 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Beowulf
11 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 323 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (20.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 57 (17.65%) Ubuntu
4 54 (16.72%) Windows
5 51 (15.79%) CentOS
6 35 (10.84%) Embedded Linux
7 34 (10.53%) Debian
8 22 (6.81%) Unix
9 16 (4.95%) Windows Server
10 9 (2.79%) CoreOS
11 7 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (2.17%) Solaris
12 6 (1.86%) SUSE
12 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
13 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.93%) Rocky
15 2 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.31%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (22.29%) Software Engineering
2 66 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 57 (17.65%) DevOps
5 43 (13.31%) Agile
6 41 (12.69%) CI/CD
7 34 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 34 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (9.60%) Configuration Management
9 30 (9.29%) Computer Science
10 26 (8.05%) Time Management
11 21 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (6.19%) Test Automation
13 19 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (5.88%) ITIL
14 18 (5.57%) High Availability
14 18 (5.57%) Open Source
14 18 (5.57%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (5.26%) Customer Experience
15 17 (5.26%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.98%) Python
2 107 (33.13%) Bash
3 67 (20.74%) C
4 35 (10.84%) C++
5 32 (9.91%) Perl
5 32 (9.91%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.12%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.57%) Java
8 11 (3.41%) Ruby
9 10 (3.10%) Ada
9 10 (3.10%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.79%) C#
11 6 (1.86%) PHP
12 5 (1.55%) Korn
12 5 (1.55%) OCaml
12 5 (1.55%) SystemTap
13 4 (1.24%) Go
13 4 (1.24%) Rust
13 4 (1.24%) SQL
14 3 (0.93%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 41 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.60%) Degree
3 22 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.10%) QA
2 9 (2.79%) PMO
3 7 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.86%) SLA
5 5 (1.55%) NCSC
6 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (14.86%) Docker
2 23 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.79%) NFS
6 8 (2.48%) Active Directory
7 7 (2.17%) KVM
8 5 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (1.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.93%) GPFS
11 2 (0.62%) iptables
11 2 (0.62%) Lustre
11 2 (0.62%) QEMU
11 2 (0.62%) vSphere
11 2 (0.62%) Xen
12 1 (0.31%) Firmware
12 1 (0.31%) Samba
12 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.31%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 111 (34.37%) Ansible
2 45 (13.93%) Kubernetes
3 42 (13.00%) Puppet
3 42 (13.00%) Terraform
4 15 (4.64%) Progress Chef
5 14 (4.33%) Grafana
6 13 (4.02%) Nagios
7 11 (3.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 11 (3.41%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.79%) Graphite
8 9 (2.79%) HAProxy
9 7 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.17%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.24%) HP Data Protector
12 3 (0.93%) Salt
12 3 (0.93%) SCCM
13 2 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 90 (27.86%) Red Hat
2 25 (7.74%) Cisco
2 25 (7.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.74%) VMware
3 11 (3.41%) Fortinet
4 10 (3.10%) IBM
4 10 (3.10%) Oracle
5 9 (2.79%) Juniper
6 8 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.48%) F5
6 8 (2.48%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.17%) EMC
7 7 (2.17%) Intel
8 6 (1.86%) Dell
8 6 (1.86%) Meraki
8 6 (1.86%) TOWER Software
8 6 (1.86%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (1.55%) HP
9 5 (1.55%) Serena
10 4 (1.24%) Sun